ELLIOTT - Key Persons
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- Research Professor Director, Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub
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- Professor of History and International Affairs
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- Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs
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- Associate Director of Development, Elliott School of International
- Associate Director, Development / Department: Development and Alumni Relations
Alastair Hamilton is the Associate Director of Development, Elliott School of International Affairs. He previously served as the Associate Director of Alumni Relations and Career Services, at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, for seven years. He directed Pitt's center in Washington, DC, working extensively across alumni relations, career services, development, and volunteer management. He also has over six years of experience working in program management, grants, and fundraising for associations and nonprofits in Washington, DC. He holds a master's degree in international relations from Boston University and a bachelor's degree in history from Yale University.
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- Associate Director, Development Communications and Donor Relations
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- Associate Director, Development Communications and Donor Relations / Department: Development and Alumni Relations
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- Graduate Admissions Officer / Department: Graduate Admissions
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- Director, Finance
- As Managing Finance Director
- Managing Finance Director, Elliott School & School of Nursing / Department: Finance and Administration
is responsible for the Elliott School and the School of Nursing. Andrei is an internal GW candidate with over 10 years of service to GW and eight years of experience in financial management across multiple schools, including the Law School, with a budget of over $100M, but also the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the School of Nursing. In the past few years, he was deeply involved with all areas of finance within schools, building a strong reputation based on his knowledge, dependability and customer service. He assisted the Law School leadership in navigating an $8M budget crunch (2018) and he assisted through critical times of leadership transition in multiple schools.
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- Outreach Program Coordinator, Generations Dialogue Project
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- Dean, Elliott School of International Affairs
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- Professor of History and International Affairs Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Elliott School of International Affairs
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- Senior Associate Dean, Academic Affairs
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- Program Manager for Global Capstone
- Program Manager, Global Capstone and Experiential Learning / Department: Academic Affairs
Briana Doyle is the Program Manager for Global Capstone and Experiential Learning at the Elliott School of International Affairs. Briana also teaches a section of the Elliott School's First Year Experience course, IAFF 1001. Before joining the Elliott School, Briana worked as an Academic Advisor at the University of Missouri Science & Technology. Briana holds a B.S. in Cognitive Science from the University of Delaware and a M.Ed. in School Counseling from Wilmington University.
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- Undergraduate Academic Advisor
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- Executive Director, Graduate Admissions and International Partnerships
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- Career and Academic Advisor
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- Admissions Coordinator / Department: Graduate Admissions
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- Graduate Admissions Officer
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- Associate Professor of Chinese Language and Literature
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- Assistant Director, Academic Programs / Department: Academic Affairs
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- Program Associate / Department: Institute for Middle East Studies
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- in 2011 As an Associate Professor
- Professor of International Affairs Director, BA and BS in International Affairs Program
Christina Fink joined the Elliott School in 2011 as an associate professor in the International Development Studies Program. Since 2022, she has also been serving as the Director of the BA and BS in International Affairs Program.
She received her B.A. in International Relations from Stanford University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Social/Cultural Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley.
She has combined research, teaching, and international development work throughout her career. Primarily based in mainland Southeast Asia from 1995-2010, her full-time positions and program evaluation consultancies addressed civil society capacity building in Myanmar with particular attention to gender and social inclusion, and political, economic, and social reforms. During this time, she also wrote Living Silence in Burma: Surviving Under Military Rule (Zed Books: 1st edition 2001, 2nd edition 2009) and served as a lecturer and program associate at the International Sustainable Development Studies Institute in Thailand.
In recent years she has contributed to the development of the GenderPro capacity-building and credentialling program run by GW's Global Women's Institute in partnership with UNICEF. She also served on the United States Institute of Peace senior study group on Myanmar which produced two reports: China's Role in Burma's Internal Conflicts (2018) and Anatomy of the Military Coup and Recommendations for the US Response (2022).Her latest publications have addressed the position of religious and ethnic minorities in Myanmar, anti-Muslim violence and the role of Facebook, and the many facets of civil society engagement in development in Myanmar.
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- Associate Program Director, Research Initiatives
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- Research Program Assistant
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- Graduate Enrollment Coordinator / Department: Graduate Admissions
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- Administrative Coordinator
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- Undergraduate Academic Advisor / Department: Undergraduate Academic Advising
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- Associate Director, Graduate Admissions / Department: Graduate Admissions
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- Program Coordinator, Academic Operations
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- Managing Editor, the Journal of Korean Studies
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- Gaston Sigur Professor of Asian Studies, Political Science & International Affairs and Director of the China Policy Program
David Shambaugh is an internationally recognized authority and award-winning author on contemporary China and the international relations of Asia. He is the Gaston Sigur Professor of Asian Studies, Political Science & International Affairs, and the founding Director of the China Policy Program in the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University.
Professor Shambaugh previously served in the Department of State and on the National Security Council staff during the Carter administration (1977- 1979), was also a Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at The Brookings Institution from 1996-2016. Prior to joining the Elliott School and GWU faculty he was a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and Reader in Chinese Politics at the University of London's School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS) from 1987-1996, where he also served as Editor of the prestigious journal The China Quarterly. He has served on the Board of Directors of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, Advisory Board of the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR), East-West Center Fellowship Board, is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and member of its Board of Studies, has been a participant in the Aspen Strategy Group, the Asia Society Task Force on U.S. China Policy, and other public policy and scholarly organizations. An active public intellectual and frequent commentator in the international media, he also serves on numerous editorial boards, and has been a consultant to governments, research institutions, foundations, universities, corporations, banks, and investment funds.
Professor Shambaugh has been selected for numerous awards and grants, including as a Distinguished Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a Senior Fulbright Scholar (in residence at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences). He has received research grants from the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Smith Richardson Foundation, German Marshall Fund, Hinrich Foundation, the British Academy, and U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He has also been a visiting scholar or professor at universities in Australia, China, Denmark, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan, and he has lectured all over the world.
As an author, Professor Shambaugh has published 35 books, including China's Leaders: From Mao to Now (second edition, 2023); International Relations of Asia (third edition, 2022); Where Great Powers Meet: America & China in Southeast Asia (2021); and China & the World (2020). Other books include The China Reader: Rising Power (2016); Tangled Titans: The United States and China (2012); China's Communist Party: Atrophy & Adaptation (2008); Power Shift: China & Asia's New Dynamics (2005); and Modernizing China's Military (2002); Making China Policy (2001); The Modern Chinese State (2000); Chinese Foreign Policy: Theory & Practice (1994); American Studies of Contemporary China (1993); and Beautiful Imperialist (1991). He has also authored numerous reports, scholarly articles and chapters, newspaper op-eds, and book reviews. He is fluent in Chinese.
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- Dean, Elliott School of International Affairs
- Dean, Elliott School of International Affairs / Department: Office of the Dean
- Special Executive Assistant, Dean Alyssa Ayres
Alyssa Ayres was appointed dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs and professor of history and international affairs at George Washington University effective February 1, 2021. She is the first woman to serve in the role of permanent dean at the school. Ayres is a foreign policy practitioner and award-winning author with senior experience in the government, nonprofit, and private sectors. From 2013 to 2021, she was senior fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), where she remains an adjunct senior fellow.
Her work focuses primarily on India's role in the world and on U.S. relations with South Asia in the larger Indo-Pacific. Her book about India's rise on the world stage, Our Time Has Come: How India is Making Its Place in the World, was published by Oxford University Press in January 2018 and was selected by the Financial Times for its "Summer 2018: Politics" list. An updated paperback edition was released in 2019. Ayres is also interested in the emergence of subnational engagement in foreign policy, particularly the growth of international city networks, and her current book project (working title, "Bright Lights, Biggest Cities: The Urban Challenge to India's Future," under contract with Oxford University Press) examines India's urban transformation and its international implications.
From 2010 to 2013 Ayres served as deputy assistant secretary of state for South Asia. During her tenure at the State Department in the Barack Obama administration, she covered all issues across a dynamic region of 1.3 billion people at the time (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka) and provided policy direction for four U.S. embassies and four consulates. Before serving in the Obama administration, Ayres was founding director of the India and South Asia practice at McLarty Associates, the Washington-based international strategic advisory firm, from 2008 to 2010, and served as a part-time senior advisor to the firm from 2014 to 2021. From 2007 to 2008, she served as special assistant to the undersecretary of state for political affairs as a CFR international affairs fellow. Prior to that she worked at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for the Advanced Study of India and at the Asia Society in New York.
Originally trained as a cultural historian, Ayres has carried out research on both India and Pakistan. Her book on nationalism, culture, and politics in Pakistan, Speaking Like a State, was published worldwide by Cambridge University Press in 2009 and received an American Institute of Pakistan Studies book prize for 2011-2012. She has coedited three books on India and Indian foreign policy: Power Realignments in Asia; India Briefing: Takeoff at Last?; and India Briefing: Quickening the Pace of Change.
Ayres has been awarded numerous fellowships and has received four group or individual Superior Honor Awards for her work at the State Department. She speaks Hindi and Urdu, and in the mid-1990s worked as an interpreter for the International Committee of the Red Cross. She received an AB from Harvard College and an MA and PhD from the University of Chicago. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, and the Halifax International Security Forum agenda group, and she serves on the boards of the National Endowment for Democracy and the Women's Foreign Policy Group. In 2021 and 2022, the Washingtonian included her as one of their "most influential people shaping policy."
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- Senior Undergrad Advisor / Department: Undergraduate Academic Advising
Debbi Washington advises undergraduate students with the last name: V-Z
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- Executive Associate / Department: Finance and Administration
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- International Affairs and Director of the Humanitarian Action Initiative
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- Director, Graduate Student Services
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- Program Manager, GW Institute for Korean Studies
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- Professor of Political Science and International Affairs Director, Institute for Security and Conflict Studies
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- Program Manager, Global Capstone and Experiential Learning
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- Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs
Dr. Attiya Ahmad is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at The George Washington University (Washington DC, USA). Broadly conceived, her research focuses on the gendered interrelation of Islamic reform movements and political economic processes spanning the Middle East and South Asia, in particular, the greater Arabian Peninsula/Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean regions. Dr. Ahmad is currently working on a project focusing on the development of global halal tourism networks. She is the author of Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work, and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait (Duke Press, 2017), and is on the editorial boards of Feminist Studies, and Anthropological Quarterly.
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Program Coordinator, M.A. in Asian Studies, M.A. in International Development Studies, and M.A. in Latin American and Hemispheric Studies, Gender Equality Initiative in International Affairs
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- Director of Constituent Engagement and Annual Giving / Department: Development and Alumni Relations
Elaine Garbe (ESIA MA '08) has worked at GW since 2003, previously serving as the Elliott School dean's assistant for seven years. A native of Minnesota, Elaine started her career at the Minnesota International Center in Minneapolis, coordinating the non-profit's public events on international issues. She has traveled the world for work and study, and lived in China for two semesters during college for study abroad and an internship at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.
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- Senior Academic Advisor, Graduate Student Services / Department: Graduate Student Services
Elizabeth Lusk (she/her) is the Senior Academic Advisor with Graduate Student Services (GSS) at the Elliott School of International Affairs and joined the team in July 2017. In addition to advising students on their academic plans and organizing Graduate Student Orientation, she strives to utilize a "whole-person" approach which considers the student's academic goals alongside the many parts that make up each individual. Elizabeth aims to utilize this approach in an effort to connect each student with resources and strategies that are best suited to their unique situation. She continues to expand her toolbox and recently completed a Graduate Certificate in Counseling and Life Transitions from GW's own GSEHD where she specialized in Career Counseling. She is eager to explore the different opportunities available to students through GSS, Elliott, and GW whether that be international education or internships, connections to Career Coaches for in-depth professional development, or discussing different wellness tools to support a well-rounded graduate experience!
She received her B.A. in Communications from Christopher Newport University (CNU) and earned a Master of Science in Education (MSEd) in Higher Education Leadership from Old Dominion University (ODU) where she specialized in student affairs. Her time in college and graduate school fortified her interests in student development and wellness, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, and international education.
Elizabeth advises graduate students with last names M-Z.
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- Undergraduate Academic Advisor / Department: Undergraduate Academic Advising
Prior to joining GW, Erik worked as a high school history teacher and wilderness expedition leader at a semester school in Leadville, CO. He holds a B.A. in History and an M.Ed. in Secondary Education from the University of New Hampshire. When he's not at work, you might find Erik listening to "60 Songs That Explain the '90s," biking around the city, or reading something by Colson Whitehead or George Saunders.
Erik advises undergraduate students with the last name: Bus - C, I-Kih
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- Assistant Director, Graduate Admissions / Department: Graduate Admissions
Erin Heffernan is from Orlando, Florida. She has a BA in International Affairs and Italian from Florida State University. Prior to joining the Elliott School, she worked with study abroad programs in Florence, Italy and Prato, Italy and international exchange programs in Washington, DC.
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- Program Coordinator, FAO Regional Skill Sustainment Initiative
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- Advisor
- Career and Academic Advisor / Department: Graduate Student Services
Felix Caraballo (he/him/his) is a Career and Academic Advisor in Graduate Student Services at the Elliott School of International Affairs. In addition to his deep dedication to the personal and professional development of others, Felix brings over 30 years of federal civilian, military, and private sector leadership and management experience to his role. This experience includes federal civilian leadership roles at the Departments of State, Homeland Security and Defense, as well as nearly a decade as an active duty U.S. Air Force Security Forces Officer.
Felix holds a Master's in Education from Regent University, a Master's in Business Administration from Webster University, and a Bachelor of Science in International Affairs with a minor in Foreign Language from the United States Air Force Academy. He has an active Virginia Postgraduate Professional Teaching License with endorsements in nine different academic areas, and has served as an Adjunct Faculty member with the Northern Virginia Community College. He has completed leadership development programs with the Federal Executive Institute (Leadership in a Democratic Society) and Harvard University's School of Public Health/Kennedy School of Government National Preparedness Leadership Initiative, and is also a formally trained leadership and personal performance coach.
Felix advises and provides career coaching to students with the last names D-H.
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- Professor of International Affairs Director, BA and BS in International Affairs Program
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- Associate Director of Development
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- Program Coordinator, FAO Regional Skill Sustainment Initiative
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- Graduate Enrollment Coordinator
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- Director of Constituent Engagement and Annual Giving
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- Associate Program Director, Research Initiatives
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- Associate Director, Graduate Admissions
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- Director, Gender Equality Initiative in International Affairs
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- Undergraduate Academic Advisor
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- Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
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- Program Manager, National Resource Center Outreach at the Institute for Middle East Studies
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- Associate Director, Development
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- Graduate Enrollment Coordinator
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- Associate for the Asian Studies
- Program Associate / Department: Sigur Center for Asian Studies, Institute for Korean Studies, East Asia National Resource Center
Haroon Rasheed (he/him/his) is the Research Program Associate for the Asian Studies suite. In his role, he oversees budgeting, reimbursements, grant management, and the financial side of grant application development for the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, the GW Institute for Korean Studies (GWIKS), and the GW East Asia National Resource Center (NRC). He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (Hons) degree focusing on Management Studies. In addition, Haroon has a diploma in Leadership Development Studies and a diploma in Accountancy. Previously, Haroon has held a variety of different professional positions. He has worked as a Consultant for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, as a Senior Program Advisor for the Royal Danish Embassy in Afghanistan, as an Advisor for the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development in Afghanistan, and as a Consultant at the World Bank. His previous professional experience includes program management, portfolio coordination, fund management, and implementing programs and projects. He is proficient in English, Dari, Pashto, Urdu, and Hindi.
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- Assistant Dean for Student Services, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Professorial Lecturer
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- Assistant Director, Graduate Admissions
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- Research Professor of Space Policy and International Affairs
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- Research Professor of International Affairs Program Director, FAO Regional Skill Sustainment Initiative
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- Outreach Program Coordinator, Generations Dialogue Project
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- Program Coordinator, PONARS Eurasia
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- Director of Outreach, Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub / Department: Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub
Ian joined the Digital Trade and Data Governance team in November of 2020. He graduated with a MSc in Security Risk Management from the University of Copenhagen and obtained his BA in Political Science from Haverford College. Prior to joining the team, Ian worked in digitalization, event management, and research for the Global Maritime Forum.
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- Managing Editor, the Journal of Korean Studies
Jack Davey, Ph.D. is an archaeologist and Early Koreanist specializing in the Iron Age of peripheral East Asia and the early states of Proto-Three Kingdoms Period Korea. He has been a part-time faculty member at George Washington University since 2019 where teaches courses on the history and archaeology of Early Korea as well as the geopolitical ramifications of historical disputes in East Asia. At GWU, he is also the Managing Editor of The Journal of Korean Studies where he seeks to foster interesting, interdisciplinary scholarship that challenges how we understand Korea as an analytic category.
Dr. Davey received his Ph.D. in Archaeology from UCLA. He was a Korea Foundation postdoctoral scholar at UC Berkeley from 2014-2015 and a research fellow at the Academy of Korean Studies in 2018.
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- Program Coordinator
- Program Coordinator for the GW Institute for Korean Studies
James Davisson (he/him) is the Program Coordinator for the GW Institute for Korean Studies. James graduated from Palm Beach Atlantic University with a B.A. in Intercultural Studies. After graduating from university, James lived in Korea for four years as a Fulbright Scholar, working with students from North Korea. While in Korea, James taught at Jeonju Haesung High School, Daum School, and Yeomyung School for North Korean Defectors. He has previously appeared on the popular Korean television show "어서와 한국은 처음이지? (Welcome, First Time in Korea?)" with his students, and he has had several social media collaborations with the U.S. Embassy in Seoul.
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- Instructional Designer / Department: Academic Affairs
- Instructional Designer at the Elliott School of International Affairs
Jamie Jeune is a Jr. Instructional Designer at the Elliott School of International Affairs. As a member of the ESIA Online team, she works to support online development through the planning and design of online courses for the International Policy and Practice (MIPP) and Security Policy Studies (SPS) graduate programs.
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- Program Coordinator for Undergraduate Programs at the Elliott School of International
- Program Coordinator, Undergraduate Programs
Janina Talamayan is the Program Coordinator for Undergraduate Programs at the Elliott School of International Affairs. She received her B.S. in Diplomacy/International Relations from Seton Hall University, where she also majored in Modern Languages (Spanish & French) and Philosophy. In Fall 2018, Janina became the St. John Paul II Fellow for the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations. She was assigned to the Second Committee of the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council during her term. Janina graduated with her MPA from GW's Trachtenberg School of Public Policy & Public Administration with a specialization in Sustainable Development.
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- Professor of Economics and International Affairs Director of the Institute for International Economic Policy
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- Co - Chair
- Member of the Leadership Team
- Producer and Founder of Segal NYC
- Trustee of the American Ballet Theater
Jenna Segal is a Tony award winning producer and founder of Segal NYC, which develops and produces theater, digital content, television, and film with a focus on parity creative teams and female audiences. Segal's productions have received 17 Tony nominations and 12 Drama Desk nominations.
Jenna successfully shepherded the revival of GIGI, a Tony nominated musical written by Heidi Thomas (CALL THE MIDWIFE, CRANFORD), and starring Vanessa Hudgens (GREASE LIVE!, RENT LIVE!, HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL) from the Kennedy Center to the Neil Simon Theatre on Broadway and led Theresa Rebeck's acclaimed What We're Up Against Off-Broadway. Other productions include: Broadway: HADESTOWN, WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME, LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES Off Broadway: GLORIA: A LIFE, SMALL MOUTH SOUNDS.
At the start of the COVID-19 Pandemic, two days after the Broadway shutdown, Jenna founded "Get In Shape Grrl-Broadway Covid Series," where she employed out of work Broadway actors to teach dance-fitness classes inspired by their shows, creating an online platform for performers to perform, and for audience members to enjoy the thrill of LIVE theatre again in our new world.
Jenna co-produced the award winning cult film BLACK DYNAMITE, and served as an Associate Producer on the web series "Lady Parts" and Executive Produced the Lady Parts short film. Segal has several films currently in development.
Segal began her career in political talk shows in Washington, DC including CNBC and CNN. Jenna moved to VIACOM networks in both Los Angeles and New York (MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Nicktoons) working in Production Management Development and New Series on live shows, animation, live events, reality competitions, variety shows, documentaries, live action gaming, non-fiction programming, extreme sports and reality programming, escalating to the position of Director of Production Management Development.
Currently, Segal serves as a trustee of the American Ballet Theater (ABT)and is the Champion Supporter of ABT Women's Movement, which provides means for the creation, exploration, and staging of new works by female choreographers. Jenna created the Heidi Thomas Initiative at Signature theater in Arlington, assuring a world premiere play by a female writer and director over a five year initiative. Recently Segal developed and implemented with 21/64 the PJSF X 21/64 NonProfit Board Management Course to teach Next Gen philanthropists how to be additive board members. Jenna's work was recently a featured chapter in Sharna Goldseker's new book, GENERATION IMPACT.
Jenna Segal has been featured in Variety, the Star Ledger, the Bergen Record, and the Wall Street Journal as a new producer to watch. She received the 2015 Women of Achievement Award by the WP Theater, the Glammy Award by GlamourGals Foundation, and the Women of Achievement Award from Hadassah. Her Op-Ed "Awards are Nice, Checks are Better," was featured in The Wrap in 2020. Segal has been a Tony Voter since 2016.
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- Director of the Institute for African Studies
- Director, Institute for African Studies
Jennifer G. Cooke is director of the Institute for African Studies at The George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs. The Institute serves as central for research, scholarly discussion, and debate on issues relevant to Africa. She is a professor of practice in international affairs, teaching courses on U.S. Policy Toward Africa and Transnational Security Threats in Africa.
Cooke joined George Washington University in August 2018, after 18 years as director of the Africa Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where she led research and analysis on political, economic, and security dynamics in Africa. While at CSIS, Cooke directed projects on a wide range of African issues, including on violent extremist organizations in the Sahel and Lake Chad Basin, China's growing role in Africa, democracy and elections in Nigeria, religion and state authority in Africa, "stress-testing" state stability in Africa, Africa's changing energy landscape, and more. She is a frequent writer and lecturer on U.S.-Africa policy and has provided briefing, commentary, and testimony to the media, US Congress, AFRICOM leadership and the U.S. military.
She has traveled widely in Africa and has been an election observer in Sierra Leone, Ghana, Liberia, Mali, and Nigeria. As a teenager, she lived in Cote d'Ivoire and the Central African Republic. She holds an M.A. in African Studies and International Economics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a B.A. in government, magna cum laude, from Harvard University.
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- Research Professor of International Affairs
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- Program Coordinator for the National Security Studies Program
- Program Coordinator, National Security Studies Program
Joel Petersen is the Program Coordinator for the National Security Studies Program at the Elliott School. Previously, Joel worked at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, supporting global policy and leadership development courses within the Abshire-Inamori Leadership Academy and Executive Education departments. He received his B.A. in political science and history at Baylor University and is currently pursuing a M.A. in security policy studies at The George Washington University.
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- Research Program Assistant / Department: Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies
- Research Program Assistant for the Illiberalism Studies Program
John Chrobak is a Research Program Assistant for the Illiberalism Studies Program (www.illiberalism.org). He has an MA in International Affairs from GW's Elliott School of International Affairs with a specialization in U.S. Foreign Policy and Eurasian Politics. His work has focused particularly on regional politics and security in Eurasia as well as the use of social media to manipulate and spread information for political influence. More recently, his recent work has focused on democracy resilience. He has previously worked at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) and at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensics Research Lab (DFRLab). He holds a B.A. in Political Science and Philosophy from McGill University.
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- Assistant Professor of International Affairs Interim Director, MA International Affairs
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- Assistant Vice President for Development & Alumni Affairs
- Assistant Vice President for Development & Alumni Affairs / Department: Development and Alumni Relations
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- Senior Administrative Staff Member
- Special Executive Assistant, Dean Alyssa Ayres
- Special Executive Assistant, Dean Alyssa Ayres, the Elliott School of International Affairs / Department: Office of the Dean
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- Assistant Director, Annual Giving
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- Chairman of Global Investment Banking for BofA Securities
- Chairman of Global Investment Banking, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, New York
- Member of Bank of America 's Operating Committee
Karim T. Assef is a managing director and the Chairman of Global Investment Banking for BofA Securities, the institutional broker dealer business of Bank of America. In this role, he helps ensure integrated, world-class delivery of advisory and capital markets services to major corporations and financial sponsors around the world.
Karim is a member of Bank of America's Operating Committee, the Global Corporate and Investment Banking (GCIB) Executive Committee, the Leveraged Finance Committee and the GCIB Business Selection Committee. He serves as the Chairman of Bank of America's Global Private Capital Council, focused on driving relationships with private capital providers on a global basis. Karim has also served as the executive sponsor of the Woman's Leadership Council and the Minority Equity Investment Program, directing growth capital to underserved entrepreneurs throughout the country.
Prior to assuming his current role in 2017, Karim served for four years as the co-head of Global Investment Banking, responsible for driving the firm's client strategy and building the bank's global capabilities and resources.
Previously, Karim served for eight years as the global head of the firm's Financial Sponsors Group, responsible for driving the bank's activities with major private equity firms and helping build the group into the market leader. Prior to heading the group, Karim spent 10 years as a senior banker, helping to establish and develop many of the firm's most important financial sponsor relationships and driving many of the industry's most notable private equity transactions.
Prior to joining the firm in 1996, Karim spent eight years with Chase Manhattan Bank where he held several leadership roles, primarily focused on providing acquisition financing and advisory services to corporate and private equity clients.
Karim holds a Masters of Business Administration from Columbia University Business School. He is a summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Columbia College, receiving a Bachelor of Arts with a dual major in Psychology and Economics. Karim serves on the Board of Directors of DREAM (previously Harlem RBI), a non-profit organization providing critical educational support and mentorship to inner-city youth. He is based in New York City.
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- Assistant Director, Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
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- Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
- Professor of Political Science and International Affairs Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
Kimberly Morgan's research focuses on the politics of social policy in the United States and Western Europe, with particular interests in immigration and social welfare. Dr. Morgan is the author of two books, Working Mothers and the Welfare State: Religion and the Politics of Work-Family Policy in Western Europe and the United States (Stanford University Press 2006) and, with Andrea Louise Campbell, The Delegated Welfare State: Medicare, Markets, and the Governance of Social Policy (Oxford University Press 2011). She is a co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of U.S. Social Policy (2014) and the Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State, second edition (2021), and her articles have appeared in journals such as the American Journal of Sociology, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Foreign Affairs, Politics & Society, Social Politics, the Socio-Economic Review, and World Politics.
Professor Morgan received her Ph.D. in political science from Princeton University and, before joining GWU, was a post-doctoral fellow at NYU's Institute of French Studies and a participant in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Scholars in Health Policy Research program at Yale University. She has been a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and visiting faculty at the Free University Amsterdam, Radboud University in The Netherlands, and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris.
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- Programs Coordinator, East Asia National Resource Center
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- Assistant Director, Institute for International Economic Policy / Department: Institute for International Economic Policy
Kyle Renner manages the Institute for International Economic Policy (IIEP), which provides a prominent platform for high-quality, multi-disciplinary, and non-partisan research, policy engagement, and outreach in international economic and development policy. A member of the Institute's leadership team, Renner manages all aspects of IIEP's work, including staff, research production, internal and external partnerships, events, public affairs and communications, development, and financial resources. Renner also directs strategic planning efforts for the Institute and leads the development and implementation of a wide range of new and ongoing organizational initiatives. He has managed sponsored research projects funded by USAID, the Asian Development Bank, DFID, the U.S. Army Research Office, the International Growth Centre, and the Gates Hewlett, Ford, and MacArthur foundations among others. He is particularly interested in organizational development, human capacity formation, and the use of interdisciplinary approaches to develop innovative solutions to entrenched problems.
Renner is a graduate of the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, holding a MA with concentrations in conflict & conflict resolution and the Middle East, and a BA with concentrations in international politics and the Middle East. While an undergrad at GW he interned with the U.S. Peace Corps in Washington, D.C. and the Arab Academy for Banking and Financial Services in Amman, Jordan, and was a member of the men's soccer team. Prior to GW he studied international business for two years at Saint Louis University's Madrid Campus, during which he interned with the U.S. Commercial Service at the U.S. Embassy - Madrid. Prior to Madrid he was awarded a Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange scholarship by ASSE to study abroad for a year in Dorsten, Germany. Renner was born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, speaks German and Spanish, and enjoys playing soccer, singing, and traveling.
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- Assistant Dean, Academic Programs
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- Assistant Dean for Student Services, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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- Research Professor of International Affairs and Political Science, Director of the Illiberalism Studies Program
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- Program Associate, International Science and Technology Policy
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- Editor - in - Chief, the Washington Quarterly Professorial Lecturer
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- Professor of Practice of International Affairs Director, National Security Studies Program
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- Associate Editor, the Washington Quarterly
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- Assistant Professor of Chinese and International
- Associate Professor of Chinese Language and Literature
Liana Chen is Assistant Professor of Chinese and International Affairs at George Washington University. She is the Director of the Taiwan Education and Research Program. Chen is the author of Literati and Actors at Work: The Transformations of Peony Pavilion on Page and On Stage in the Ming and Qing Dynasties (Taipei: National Taiwan University Press, 2013) and Staging for the Emperors: A History of Qing Court Theatre, 1683-1923 (Amherst, New York: Cambria Press, 2021). Liana Chen's areas of teaching and research focus on Chinese drama and theatre, Chinese literature of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and Taiwanese theatre, literature and film. Liana Chen's research has been supported by the Foundation for Development of Chinese Culture (Taiwan), The American Council of Learned Societies, and Sigur Center for Asian Studies.
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- Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs Director, M.a. International Economic Policy ( MIEP )
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- Senior Academic Advisor, Graduate Student Services
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- Professor of Political Science and International Affairs Director, Project on Middle East Political Science ( POMEPS ) Director, M.a. Middle East Studies
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- Program Coordinator, M.a. in International Affairs, Masters of International Policy and Practice, and Professional Skills Courses
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- Special Executive Assistant, Dean Alyssa Ayres, the Elliott School of International Affairs
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- Assistant Director, Academic Programs
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- Co - Chair
- Member of the Leadership Team
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- Assistant Research Professor of International Affairs Associate Director of the Institute for Middle East Studies
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- Program Associate, International Education and Student Services
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- Undergraduate Academic Advisor
Mr. Hakim Jan is born and raised in Afghanistan. He is a Youth Exchange & Study (YES) alumnus and an Afghan Fulbright scholar. He holds a B.A. in political science with a minor in national security studies from the University of Houston (2015) and a master's (MA) in Security Policy Studies from The George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs - ESIA (2019). Fluent in Dari, Pashtu, and English, Mr. Hakim has over seven years of professional experiences within various governmental and non-governmental institutions in Afghanistan. Research interests: transnational security issues (counterterrorism/insurgency, counter-narcotics, and hybrid threats…etc.,) with a focus on Afghanistan (and South and Central Asia). He is a member of the Afghan Fulbright Association (AFA). As a Nadler Fellow for Leadership Studies, Mr. Hakim concentrates on research, student advice (Capstone Projects), and service.
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- Associate Dean for Research Initiatives
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- Senior Administrative Staff Member
- Executive Director, Graduate Admissions & International Partnerships
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- Director, Human Resources
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- Program Coordinator, M.a. Global Communication, Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication, Humanitarian Action Initiative, Sigur Center for Asian Studies
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- Program Coordinator, National Security Studies Program
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- Assistant Director, Institute for International Economic Policy
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- Professor of the Practice of International Affairs Director, M.a. International Development Studies Program
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- Senior Administrative Staff Member
- Director, Public Affairs
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- Program Coordinator, Academic Operations
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- Program Coordinator, M.a. in Security Policy Studies ( SPS ), and the Data Literacy Initiative
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- Director, Graduate Student Services
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- Director, Undergraduate Academic Advising
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- Undergraduate Academic Advisor
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- Gaston Sigur Professor of Asian Studies, Political Science & International Affairs and Director of the China Policy Program
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- Director, Human Resources
- Senior Administrative Staff Member
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- Research Professor of International Affairs
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- Director, Undergraduate Academic Advising
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- Assistant Vice President for Development & Alumni Affairs
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- Program Coordinator, Undergraduate Programs
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- Assistant Director, POMEPS
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- Managing Finance Director, Elliott School & School of Nursing
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- Undergraduate Senior Academic Advisor
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- Assistant Director, New Student Experience and Orientation
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- Director of Outreach, Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub
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- Professor of International Affairs Director of the M.a. in Security Policy Studies Program
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- Assistant Director, Career and Graduate Academic Advising
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- Research Professor of International Affairs Director, Partnerships for International Strategies in Asia ( PISA )
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- Public Affairs and International Affairs Director, Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication Director, M.a. Global Communications Program